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What YOU Need to Know About Wedding Gown Preservation Wedding gown preservation. This is another one of those topics that many brides know little about. Find out why wedding gown preservation is one last, but very important step that MUST be included in your wedding planning process, and discover expert secrets for doing your own wedding gown prservation. If you're like most brides, after the wedding you are going to feel extremely sentimental about your wedding gown. After all, you paid dearly for it (how often do you shell out that kind of cash for something you wear only once?). But this is about much more than money. You wedding gown will have an almost magical ability to bring back amazing memories every time you see it, touch it, or hold it in your arms. Suddenly, all the visions, sounds, and smells of your wedding day come flooding back with precious clarity when you spend spend a sentimental moment with your wedding gown in the years to come. Your wedding gown also has major heirloom potential, and that's why you need to start thinking about wedding gown preservation right now. You may be asking, "Why are we talking about this now?. Isn't wedding gown preservation something that gets done after the wedding?". Yes, indeed, but we're talking immediately after the wedding if you are going to do it right, and that means you need to have a plan in place long before then. While wedding gown preservation could be done anytime, say, weeks, months, or even years after the wedding, to prevent permanent, irrepairable damage to your wedding gown, you'll need to move on your wedding gown preservation plans quickly once all the hoopla of the wedding is over. For that to happen, you need to do your wedding gown preservation homework now. If you are going to avoid stains from setting, overall discoloration, or other problems, you won't have time to research wedding gown preservation companies once the wedding is over. Every additional day that your weddiing gown sits with stains or perspiration residue may create lasting damage. So this is time to come up with your list of reputable wedding gown preservation services - while you can do it in a relaxed, non-rushed, pressure-free environment rather than in hurried desperation (which often leads only to disaster). Once you've made your list of possible wedding gown preservation services, you'll still need to check each one out and evaluate them all to make sure you select a gown preservation company you really feel comfortable with and confident in. This will mean reading all of the literature they have about their wedding gown preservation service (often available on their website for ease and convenience in your research process), checking references and consulting the BBB, as well as understanding their gown preservation process, what exactly they offer (every company is different), and their fees to ensure you get the best value. What is Wedding Gown Preservation? Wedding gown preservation is a process performed by trained specialists who will safely and carefully clean your entire gown, remove stains in a non-damaging manner, and repair other types of common damage that often occurs on the wedding day, such as tears, hanging hems, missing or loose buttons or beads, etc. Wedding gown preservation specialists know all of the proper handling techniques for cleaning bridal fabrics like silk, satin, taffeta, tulle, lace, etc. The have special techniques for cleaning fabrics with a lot of beadwork, pearls, jewels or sequins, and they also have methods for cleaning the beads and sequins themselves. A reputable wedding gown preservation specialist will know how to get your gown clean and restore it to its original condition as much as possible - without inadvertantly doing damage to your precious gown in the process. After your wedding gown has been thoroughly cleaned and repairs have been completed, it undergoes a chemical preservation treatment which actually helps prevent the gown from yellowing over the years, and also prevents the fabric from deteriorating. The wedding gown preservation specialist will then place your wedding gown in special air tight packaging to help protect it from airborne pollutants, humidity (which can cause mustiness or mildew), dust, moths, insects, or even mice during the many years of long term storage that lie ahead. This special wedding gown preservation packaging typically has a "window" that you are able to look through when you get a hankering to take a peak at your gown every now and then. So what about accessories like your bridal purse, gloves, headpiece or veil, etc? Do those need preservation too? It's definitely a good idea if you also intend to keep those items as heirlooms and keepsakes (most brides do). Most wedding gown preservation services can handle preserving those types of accessories when the wedding gown preservation is being done. Some may actually include items like the veil in the basic gown preservation price, while others may charge extra - so be sure to compare prices and value. (This is why you should start looking into this now). How Do You Find a Wedding Gown Preservation Service? The internet, as you know, is a terrific source of information and can be a fast, ultra-convenient way to locate service providers. Try using the search box right at the bottom of this page to search the term "wedding gown preservation" (try it with and without quotation marks for all possible results) and you'll find numerous web sites where you can instantly get info about their service. Often (not always), we feature ads for select wedding gown preservation companies right here on this page, and following these links is another terrific place to start getting the info you need. Aside from that, bridal magazines often run ads for wedding gown preservation companies, and you can also ask any recently married brides you know who they used for their wedding gown preservation. Send Your Gown Away to a Wedding Gown Preservation Service? Because wedding gown preservation is really a highly specialized area of expertise, there is a limit to the number of companies that offer this service, and chances will be quite good that there won't be a wedding gown preservation company in your local area. This means that to have your gown preserved, you'll have to ship it to a wedding gown preservation company in another city. After they have done their magic, the wedding gown preservation company will then ship your gown back to you. The wedding gown preservation company should explain the details of how this is arranged when you are doing your research. Make sure you find out what happens if the gown is lost of damaged in transit, and that you get this information from them in writing. Also ask the wedding gown preservation company what recommendations or protection they might offer to prevent such a thing from happening in the first place. By making sure that you put your gown through the important process of wedding gown preservation immediately after your wedding, you'll be protecting your investment, and your precious keepsake. And who knows, since that gorgeous gown of yours will remain is such terrific shape, maybe one day, say twenty-some years from now, you'll have the thrill of watching someone else - a daughter you may or may not even have yet - wear it for her trip down the aisle... More of the stuff dreams are made of.     Sign Up for Our FREE Wedding IDEAS Newsletter!   Crazy About Weddings? 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